Deformation theory and finite simple quotients of triangle groups. I.

DOI10.4171/JEMS/463zbMATH Open1312.20030arXiv1301.2949MaRDI QIDQ461275FDOQ461275

Michael Larsen, Alexander Lubotzky, Claude Marion

Publication date: 10 October 2014

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $2leqaleqbleqcinmathbbN$ with $mu=1/a+1/b+1/c<1$ and let $T=T_{a,b,c}=<x,y,z:x^a=y^b=z^c=xyz=1>$ be the corresponding hyperbolic triangle group. Many papers have been dedicated to the following question: what are the finite (simple) groups which appear as quotients of $T$? (Classically, for $(a,b,c)=(2,3,7)$ and more recently also for general $(a,b,c)$.) These papers have used either explicit constructive methods or probabilistic ones. The goal of this paper is to present a new approach based on the theory of representation varieties (via deformation theory). As a corollary we essentially prove a conjecture of Marion [21] showing that various finite simple groups are not quotients of $T$, as well as positive results showing that many finite simple groups are quotients of $T$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2949

zbMATH Keywords

representation varietiesfinite simple groupsFuchsian groupspresentationstriangle groupsHurwitz groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05)

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